Some of the hottest gadgets in mobile technology are headed for one of the coldest places on earth. According to information gathered by ifoAppleStore, Apple is planning to open a retail store at the Fifth Avenue Mall in Anchorage, Alaska. This store will become the northern-most Apple store in existence, only 320 miles south of the Arctic Circle.

According to the original tip, the fit-out is underway inside the former Eddie Bauer space on the second level of the downtown mall.

For months, speculation has swirled about a forthcoming Apple store in Alaska, a state in which there are presently no Apple retail outlets. But with the addition of the Anchorage facility, yet another name can be checked off the list of states that still lack an Apple store. Arkansas, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont, West Virginia, and Wyoming are still without an Apple store to call their own.

Construction schedules at the Anchorage site suggest the store will open in September. The property, however, will not be a grand structure by comparison to other Apple stores in the hopper around the world. As MMi reported earlier this week, Apple's biggest retail ventures are presently planned for China, where the new Shanghai store may soon become Apple's busiest and most lucrative.

I go to Anchorage every summer because my mother still lives there. The only "Apple Store" they have is a private one owned and operated by the same people selling Apple products since the early 2000s. They're good people. I hope this Apple Store doesn't f*** them over.

Going on record to say apple will have the first store on the Moon as well

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And the means to get there. The iROCKET. Of course with buggy Apple software it'll probably shoot you straight into the Sun instead. But don't worry....Apple will patch up that little glitch soon enough.

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I ****** love In & Out I miss it

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Amen.....not even the iPhone 5 could satisfy me more. Probably.

And another thing.......what's the point in putting "300 miles South of the Arctic Circle."

What's wrong with just putting "Anchorage, Alaska". I'm sure the people who live there know how close or far it is from the Arctic Circle.

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"Apple has three retail stores 74 miles south of Austin, TX and 560 miles East of El Paso, TX."

Awesome news. It's not like those of us in Alaska can just drive to the next state over to hit an Apple store. If we want to go to Seattle we have several days of driving and have to show a passport just to get there...unless you take a ferry which is still several days, several hundred dollars, and only operates during certain times of the year...so...Apple store in Anchorage...awesome!!!